Home Health & Hospice Week
California Hospice Faces Employee Lawsuit After Management Change
If you don’t secure employee buy-in during a management transition, the result might be more than just an HR headache.
Yolo Hospice in Davis, Calif., is facing a lawsuit from two former employees, reports CBS 13 News. Former nurse Jody Norton alleges in the suit that newly hired Executive Director Craig Dresang wanted nurses to “perform a late admission of a patient” without a doctor’s order and “patrol local hospitals to actively solicit referrals.” When Norton spoke up against the practice, she was fired, the suit claims. When hospice employee Piper Berge asked the hospice board of directors to review the dismissal, she was fired four days later via email, the suit alleges. Berge says she also faced “harassing and discriminatory treatment” from Dresang be-cause she’s gay, CBS 13 reports.
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